Color

#a3a080

#a3a080
hex#a3a080
rgbrgb(163, 160, 128)
hslhsl(55, 16%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.045 103)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3449

Colors that go with #a3a080

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a3a080

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8083a3

#a38e80 · #94a380

#80a3a0 · #a080a3

Split-complementary

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#8094a3 · #8e80a3

#80a38e · #8083a3 · #a38094

Contrast

#a3a080 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797658 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5a42 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.9:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a3a080 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a3a080 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3a080
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a3a080 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3a080-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md